Serendipity studio has started, and we’ve put up an installation tying together bicycle builders, 3d printed hubs to form this:
To celebrate 5 years of teaching and fostering craft in Clerkenwell, the Goldsmiths’ Centre assembled a crack team of creatives to bung some sticks together to forma nice yellow space frame (literally sticks bunged together, see prototyping here).
It’ll be up for May, go check it out!
For anyone tracking our whereabouts two scalerulers were recently papped at the IABSE Bath 2017 conference. Not only did we manage to agree on which session to attend, we also co-presented last year’s pavilion project during a session about educating, inspiring and developing creative and innovative designers. A great chance for us to get on our high horses! You can check out our IABSE 2017 paper here.
Big thanks to Phil Buckingham at The Visual Shop for the amazing illustration of the NGD pavilion. If it looks half as good as this in real life we’ll be on to a winner!
We’re now really ramping up for the build so if you’re keen to help out then sign up on the about page.
This year’s pavilion of social interaction has warped the space-time fabric to make it online in advance of being built at this friendly Clerkenwell Design Week sneak preview page on the web. Exciting stuff. Recruiting for keen assembly volunteers for the end of May soon – if you’re interested, sign up on our about page.
Two Scale Rule engineers infiltrate Open City’s annual ‘thank you’ bash to build for victory in their 30 min Lego tower challenge! Special note to Ian for his inspired spire work.
Annabel unfortunately was distracted by making a tower which looked like a happy robot. Tut tut.
In a continuation of our efforts to spread the virtues of structural engineering tomorrow I’ll be giving a lecture to 4th year Architecture students at the Bartlett. The talk will mainly focus on how we can inform intelligent form through an understanding of structural simplicity and elegance. For anyone interested in this field I’d recommend checking out the legendary D’arcy Thompson and his book, ‘On Growth and Form’!
On Growth and Form – D-arcy Thompson (1917)
Our eminent panel of judges, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that this Clerkenwell Design Week should be graced with a twin staircase/bridge combo. This may be a little more challenging to realise than we’re used to!
Well, no rest for the wicked…
Just one week to go until the Next Generation Design workshops, hope you’re all as excited we are! The good news is that we’re still accepting applications so if you’re a budding Architect or Engineer and aged 14-16 then sign up now online to join us next weekend. More information on the NGD page:
Well done to the UCL IDP students who presented some very impressive projects at the public display in UCL today, responding to the briefs we set them for four projects back in October.
Loads more information on the departments website here.
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